Garment supporting device



Aug. 31, 1937. A EV E 2,091,931.

GARMENT SUPPORTING DEVI CE Original Filed April 16. 1,936

5 I /////////////II///I//////// II I I ///////////////////d7//% I u INVENTOR wam Z e w/ve BY M W ATTORN EY Patented Aug. 31, 1937 GARMENT SUPPORTING DEVICE Abraham Levine, Elizabeth, N. 3., assignor to lresto Lock Corporation, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Original application April 16, 1935, Serial No.

Divided and this application March 29, 1937, Serial No. 133,525

5 Claims.

This application is a division of my co-pending application Serial Number 74,675, filed April 16, 1936.

This invention relates to improvements in garment supporting devices for use in. traveling bags and the like.

There now being rovided in traveling bags, garment supporting devices which usually are pivotaliy attached to the cover of the bag.

f. or to the back wall of the body of the bag adjacent the hinge connection between the cover and the body. The supporting devices are designed to lie within the cover when the bag is closed; and such devices in many instances are provided with means for supporting a. plurality of garment hangers or rods loosely so that they can be readily removed from the supporting device for the purpose of draping garments thereon. In order toprevent the garments from falling on of the hangers when the bag is closed, means are provided to prevent accidental removal of the hangers. However, such means as heretofore provided, have been found relatively difficult to manipulate inasmuch as they involved a sornewhat complicated structure, which also increased the cost of manufacture thereof.

It is, therefore, an object of this invention to provide a garment supporting device for traveling bags having simple, inexpensive and easily manipulated means for retaining garment hangers on th support to prevent the hangers from falling of the support when. the bag is closed.

This and other objects are attained by the novel construction, combination arrang ment of parts hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawing, constituting a material part of this disclosure, and in which:

Fig. 1 is a. perspective view of a garment supporting device embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of means for retaining garment hangers on the support.

Fig. 3 is a side elevational view, in section, showing one position of the hanger retaining means.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view showing one end of a garment hanger used with the support.

Fig. 5 is a side elevational View, in section, showing another position of the hanger retaining means.

Fig. 6 is an elevational view, partly in section, showing details of the hanger retaining means.

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary view of another form of garment hanger adapted to be used with the support and forming a part of this invention.

Referring to the drawing, in Fig. 1, the garmerit support is shown in an extended condition for draping garments thereon. The support comprises a pair parallel bars "l, having one end thereof adapted to be pivotally connected to the cover or the body of the traveling bag adjacent the hinge connection between the body and cover. The bars l are braced by a bar 8; and each bar is provided with a projection 9 adapte to engage projections (not shown) within the body of the bag to hold the bars 8 in a horizontal position when the support is extended shown in Fig. l. Pivotally con nected to the outer ends of bars 3 are upwardly extending bars it; which are inclined forwardly at an angle to the vertical. The lower ends of bars iii are bent under bars 8 and engage the latter to limit the forward inclination of bars if). bars it are braced by a bar El, which serves as means over which garments can be folded when the support is collapsed and psitioncd in the cover of the traveling bag. The bars 93 are further braced bya bar l2 adjacent the upper ends thereof.

A U-shaped member it having legs I3 is re movably attached to the upper ends of bars it by means of projections: M from the legs 93 passing through apertures in bars 10.

Attached to the member l5, adjacent the legs it, are tubular members El, having slidably mounted therein rods 21, having heads 23. Encircling the rods and positioned between the members it and the heads 23, are coiled compression springs 22, which normally tend to eject the root from the tubular members. The rods iii at the ends opposite to the ends carrying the heads 23, are provided with a reduced portion l9, and a tapered nose 2%. Ejection of the rods from the tubular members is prevented by the engagement of the nose 2i) with an internal shoulder 33 in the tubular member.

Slidably mounted vertically on the member l5 are fiat casings it having apertures it through which the noses 2d of rods 2i pass. The casings I6 are normally maintained in a raised position by bowed springs 24, or similar means, positioned between the upper walls of the casing and the upper surface of member i5, so that normally the apertures l8 are eccentric of the tubular members H. The lower edge of the casing surrounding the aperture I8 has a sharp edge 3!, which is adapted to engage the flat rear surface of nose 28 when the rod 2! is forced through the member IT, to prevent the spring 22 from retracting the rod to the position shown in Fig. 5.

The tubular members I! are adapted to supso that the hanger cannot be removed from the tubular member.

In operation, to release the noses from engagement with the sharp edges E5! on casings IE5 at the lower border of apertures 58, the casings are pressed downward (see Fig. 5) against the action of springs 26, to position the apertures l8 concentric with the tubular members I l. The rods 2! are then rapidly ejected by the coiled springs Garment hangers can now be mounted on rods 29, as the space between the free end of each member 26 and the hanger is greater than the diameter of rods 2!. The garment hangers can now be shoved over tubular members il and the rods 2! pushed inwardly until the noses Zii snap over the edges 3|. The hangers can not now be removed from the members ll, until the casings l5 are depressed to release the noses 2b.

In Fig. 'i is shown another form of garment hanger 25, having a member 39 encircling partially the tubular member H, the member having the free end thereof outwardly directed and positioned beneath the leg 23, which obviously prevents upward movement of the garment hanger. Garment hangers of this form must be positioned on the tubular members I? in the same manner as above described. When the form shown in Fig. '7 is used, elements l3 and i? should be of substantially the same length.

The foregoing disclosure is to be regarded as descriptive and illustrative only, and not as restrictive or limitative of the invention, of which obviously an embodiment may be constructed including modifications Without departing from the general scope herein indicated and denoted in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patout, is

1. In a garment supporting device, a U-shaped member, tubes mounted on the U-shaped member parallel to and adjacent the legs thereof, rods slidably mounted in said tubes, each of said rods having a reduced portion and a tapered nose at one end and a head at the other end thereof, compression springs encircling said rods and positioned between said heads and tubes to constantly tend to eject the rods from the tubes, means to prevent complete ejection of the rods from the tubes, casings mounted on and slidable transversely of the U-shaped member, said casings having apertures adapted to register with the tubes, and spring means to normally hold said casings in positions so that the apertures therein will not register with the tube, whereby when the tapered noses on the rods are passed through the casings portions of the casings will snap into the reduced portions of the rods and prevent ejection of the rods.

2. In a garment support, a member, tubes mounted on the member, rods slidably mounted in the tubes, resilient means tending constantly to eject the rods from the tubes, means to limit the extent of ejection of the rods, said rods having one end thereof rounded and provided with notches adjacent said rounded ends, casings slidably mounted on the member and having apertures adapted to register with said tubes, and resilient means normally forcing said casings to positions so that the apertures will not register with the tubes so that when the rounded ends of the rods are forced through said apertures portions of the casings will snap into the notches and prevent ejection of the rods.

3. In a nent support, a member, tubes mounted on the member, rods slidably mounted in the tubes, resilient means tending constantly to eject the rods from the tubes, means to precomplete ejection of the rods, said rods being provided with notches adjacent one end t eof, plates slidably mounted on said member aving apertures adapted to register with the openings in said tubes, and means normally holding said plates in positions to cause nonof the apertures and tube openings so that when the rods are moved through said apertures ie plates will engage in said notches to prevent ejection of the rods.

4. In a garment support, a U-shaped member, tubes mounted on the member adjacent to and parallel to the legs thereof, rods slidably mounted in the tubes, a clothes hanger, and downward- 1y opening hooks at the ends of said hanger slidably mounted on the tubes, said hooks having means engaging the legs of said member so that the hanger can be removed only by sliding the hooks on the tubes to positions beyond the free ends of the legs.

5. In a garment support, a member, tubes mounted on the member, rods slidably mounted in the tubes, resilient means tending constantly to eject the rods from the tubes, means to prevent complete ejection of the rods, said rods being provided with notches adjacent one end thereof, plates movably mounted on said member and having openings adapted to register with the openings in said tubes, and means normally holding said plates in positions to cause non-register of the openings in the plates and the tube openings so that when the rods are moved through the openings in the plates the latter will engage in said notches to prevent ejection of the rods.

ABRAHAM LEVINE. 

